There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.